Health and Safety Administrator

GXO (formerly Wincanton) · Burnley

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Are you passionate about maintaining high standards and supporting a culture of safety and compliance? Can you support health, safety, quality and environmental processes while building effective relationships across a busy operation? Do you enjoy coordinating data, audits and reporting activities that help drive operational excellence?

Exciting things are happening at GXO! We're delighted to announce the expansion of our Fashion & Apparel operations with the launch of our newest distribution site in Burnley (BB10). Following significant investment, this site is being brought back to life and will become a key part of our growing UK network.

As a Health and Safety Administrator, you'll provide essential support to the site's Health and Safety function, helping to ensure compliance, reporting and administration activities are delivered efficiently and accurately. Working closely with the Health and Safety team, operational leaders and site colleagues, you'll play an important role in promoting a safe and compliant working environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly organised individual who enjoys working with data, coordinating activities and supporting key operational functions.

This is a full time, permanent position working any 5 in 7 days for 37.5 hours per week

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £30,000.00 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

  • Support the administration of health and safety activities across the site
  • Maintain accident records, trackers, reports and related documentation
  • Organise meetings, prepare communications and record meeting minutes where required
  • Compile audit results, compliance reports and performance data for the H&S team
  • Provide administrative support for projects, initiatives and continuous improvement activities

What you need to succeed at GXO:

  • IOSH Managing Safely
  • Previous experience in as an Administrator or in a Safety role
  • Excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the confidence to engage at all levels of the business
  • Good IT skills including Microsoft Office applications and data management systems

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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Posted 06 Nov 2026

Where you'd be based

BB10 2BQ

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